---
title: "FDD 3000 Disk Drive system"
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type: "product"
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url: "http://localhost/product/fdd-3000-disk-drive-system/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/product/fdd-3000-disk-drive-system.md"
published_at: "2019-11-30T01:42:08+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-22T13:13:34+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
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excerpt: "Power supply, FDD controller and with two disk drives in a black metal case. Same intelligent controller as original FDD 3 but with expanded internal RAM of 64K. Each drive stores 160K per side. Zebra version included CP/M 2.2 and 64 column terminal emulator program for the TS 2068. A recreation of the CP/M is…"
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price: 425
date: 1984
rarity: "Rare"
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---

# FDD 3000 Disk Drive system

Power supply, FDD controller and with two disk drives in a black metal case. Same intelligent controller as original [FDD 3](http://localhost/product/fdd-3-disk-drive-system/) but with expanded internal RAM of 64K. Each drive stores 160K per side.

Zebra version included CP/M 2.2 and 64 column terminal emulator program for the TS 2068. A recreation of the [CP/M is available on Github](https://github.com/slawkis/fdd3000_cpm).

Produced by Timex Computers, Portugal, sold in Portugal and Poland and imported to the United States.